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   PASTORS CLAIMING TO BE "NEW TESTAMENT LEVITES"   
      
   One of the deceptions used by false tithing teachers, especially by pastors,   
   is to claim that a pastor is a "modern day Levite" or a "New Testament   
   Levite." This, of course, is a tactic employed by them because they cannot   
   deny that the tithe was given    
   to the Levites as undeniably stated in Numbers 18:21, 24;   
      
   "Numbers 18:21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in   
   Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the   
   service of the tabernacle of the congregation."   
      
   And...   
      
   Numbers 18:24 - "But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as   
   an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit:   
   therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have   
   no inheritance."   
      
   Also, seen in Hebrews 7:5;   
      
   Hebrews 7:5 - "And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the   
   office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people   
   according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the   
   loins of Abraham:"   
      
   Furthermore, tithing teachers routinely employ the deception of claiming that   
   their church is a "storehouse to be tithed to." Malachi states that the tithe   
   was to be brought into the Storehouse in Jerusalem by the Levites (remember;   
   Malachi is addressing    
   the Levite-Priesthood of his day, Malachi 2;1); NOT to a New Testament church.   
   The New Testament Church is not the Storehouse; Ref.; Nehemiah 10:38 - "And   
   the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take   
   tithes: and the    
   Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to   
   the chambers, into the treasure house." NO SCRIPTURE designates a New   
   Testament church, or any other person or ministry in the New Testament as a   
   "storehouse to be tithed to."   
      
   Tithing teachers like to claim "the storehouse is where you get fed from." In   
   fact the common people were NEVER fed from the storehouse, only those serving   
   in the ministry were fed from the storehouse; the priests on duty in the   
   temple in Jerusalem, and    
   the singers and the porters of the temple;    
      
   Nehemiah 13:4-5 - "And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight   
   of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah: And he had   
   prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat   
   offerings, the frankincense, and    
   the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was   
   commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and   
   the offerings of the priests."   
      
   The common people were not even permitted to bring a tithe to the temple, and   
   if they attempted to do so, it was the death penalty; If you were not a Levite   
   accompanied by a Priest descended from Aaron and you brought a tithe to the   
   Storehouse, the    
   penalty was death...   
      
   Numbers 18:22 - In the clear context of tithing... "Neither must the children   
   of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they   
   bear sin, and die."   
      
   There is no such New Testament principle or instructions concerning any   
   "storehouse tithing" that a Christian must follow. It simply does not exist   
   except in the minds of deceptive tithing teachers and in the gullible people   
   they deceive.   
      
   THE FOLLOWING ARE MANY SOLID REASONS WHY A NEW TESTAMENT PASTOR IS NOT A   
   LEVITE, AND HAS NO RIGHT TO TAKE ANY TITHE FROM ANYONE   
      
   >> 1. Levites were called by God to bear the burden of sin of the   
   congregation. No New Testament pastor bares the burden of sin for his   
   congregation.   
      
   Numbers 18:22-23 - "Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh   
   the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. But the   
   Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they   
   shall bear their iniquity:    
   it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the   
   children of Israel they have no inheritance."   
      
   >> 2. No New Testament pastor serves at the alter of sacrifice for sins for   
   the congregation, or pid for the sins of the people, and does not offer any   
   sacrifice for sin. Jesus is our final sacrifice for sin. NO PASTOR can offer a   
   sacrifice for sins for    
   the congregation. Hebrews 7:13-14 - "For he of whom these things are spoken   
   pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. For   
   it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake   
   nothing concerning    
   priesthood."   
      
   Even Jesus did not, AND COULD NOT, bear the sins of the people as a Levite   
   Priest because He was NOT a Levite, He was born to the tribe of Judah. Again;   
   "For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses   
   spake nothing concerning    
   priesthood."   
      
   Jesus bore the sins of the world on the Cross as a Priest after the Order of   
   Melchisedec, NOT AS A PRIEST AFTER THE TRIBE OF LEVI. Hence...   
      
   Hebrews 6:20 - "Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an   
   high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec."   
      
   Hebrews 7:11 - "If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for   
   under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that   
   another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called   
   after the order of Aaron?"   
      
   Hebrews 7:17 - "For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order   
   of Melchisedec."   
      
   Hebrews 5:6 - "As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever   
   after the order of Melchisedec." That "other place" was Psalms 110:4 seen   
   below.   
      
   Which said Priesthood existed even before Jesus was born on earth; that is to   
   say that the Priesthood of Melchizedek was established on earth before the   
   birth of Jesus Christ so that Jesus could in fact be a Priest after the Order   
   of Melchizedek when He    
   went to the Cross to bear our sins...   
      
   Psalms 110:4 - "The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest   
   for ever after the order of Melchizedek."   
      
   Genesis 14:18-19 - "And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and   
   wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and   
   said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:"   
      
   Jesus' sacrifice was not after the law of carnal command that fades, but   
   rather after the POWER OF ENDLESS LIFE. This is why we are told this...   
      
      
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